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Bug#638978: xorg: X crashes when opening pidgin



On Son, 2011-08-28 at 22:54 +0300, Mandrantosoa 'Ndrianiaina wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, actually there's some confusion about whether there's 64 or 128 MB
> > of VRAM, e.g.
> > 
> > (II) RADEON(0): mem size init: gart size :fdff000 vram size: s:4000000 visible:7b94000
> > 
> > Do you know how much there's supposed to be?
> 
> It seems like my graphic card has 128MB RAM :
> 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
> 	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48
> 	Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]

This shows the PCI BAR size, which doesn't necessarily match the VRAM
size. Maybe check in Mac OS or the paper documentation that came with
the machine. 


> But I don't know where to set VRAM configuration...'

You can't / shouldn't need to.


Please provide the dmesg output I asked for, even from a run that hasn't
shown the problem yet. 


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